Anyone else use DigitalRetention.com auto photography??

I detailed a customers car for a shoot with Digital Retention and was talking to Ernie over there. He showed me a few of the cars he has shot and there are some excellent studio photographs! He has done a Stradale and a 355 Spyder (both F-chatters, I think) and I was thinking about having him shoot a few of my cars and motorcycles. The price seems more than reasonable for the great quality of pictures you get. Anybody else use them? It almost seems too good to be true!

 

I haven't done work with that studio, but the shots on his website [digitalretention.com] do look very nice.

I am a commercial photographer. I have shot cars and motorcycles in studios and on location. I am shooting motorcycles next week in my client's warehouse. The images will be two pages wide, and will go into various magazines including RacerX, Motocross Action, etc. starting in the Feb. 07 issues.

Not every photographer has the skill or equipment to shoot items as large and reflective as cars. Even more rare, is a studio that has the conditions that are optimized for shooting cars. The background, ceiling, walls, almost everything has to be clean to prevent unwanted reflections. The slick look that digital retention achieves requires all three (skill, equipment, studio), and I there aren't really that many photographers/studios that do this.

If I were going to shoot a car in a studio, especially on white, with clean light, I would try to do it exactly like digital retention does it. He seems to have an ideal setup.

(I would pass on the phony ground reflection into the image.)

I don't mean to hijack a thread about somebody else's photography with my own work, and I'm not advertising for more work, but here's an example of a shot I did.
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I'm not much of a fan of white studio pictures! Especially when the add some strange ground reflections....I don't really understand them, I'm sure whatever car you own, the company has a picture very similar you could buy...? Unless its a custom made car or bike

 

Ernie does great work..... He spends about 2-3 hours just shooting the car and countless more hours making finishing touches.

His number is 847-963-0901
email [email protected]
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